Gern's pupils turned completely pale, and the vibrating particles wrapped around him suddenly stilled, as if even the air had solidified.
"Heaven Quake…" He slowly raised his right hand, palm facing down, and suddenly clenched his five fingers.
"Space Domination: Myriad Things Collapse!!!"
"Buzz!" A pure white tremor ring expanded rapidly from beneath his feet, instantly covering the entire battlefield!
The space within the ring vibrated violently, gravity was distorted by high-frequency shockwaves, and shattered rocks on the ground floated up against all reason, only to disintegrate into dust the next second.
Light refracted and shattered within the tremor ring, forming countless prism-like pale cracks, as if the entire world had been cut into fragments.
Roger's body suddenly sank, as if enveloped by an invisible quagmire, every movement becoming ten times slower.
Even more terrifying was that he clearly felt his bones, muscles, and even blood, gradually resonating with the frequency of the spatial vibrations!
"Not good! My body… is disintegrating?!"
He looked down, and fine cracks appeared on the skin of his arm, like a porcelain vessel cracking.
Gern's figure slowly emerged in the center of the tremor ring, his voice cold: "Sink into the vibrations! Roger!!!"
"Haoshoku Bone!!!" Roger roared violently, Conqueror's Haki erupting from his body like a volcano!
Dark red lightning forcibly tore open the tremor ring's 束縛, his entire body's muscles tensed, veins bulging, and every step he took caused the ground to collapse.
Ace's blade, wrapped in unprecedented Haki, slashed down ferociously towards Gern!
Gern's pupils constricted slightly, "He can actually resist the disintegration effect with Haki…"
But the next second, a cold arc appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Too bad, you won't last much longer."
The tremor ring contracted again, and the speed of spatial disintegration… suddenly accelerated!
For a time, in this vast underwater battlefield, forcibly opened by Gern with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, the roar of Haki and the tearing of vibrations never ceased.
Every collision between the two seemed to overturn the entire sea, seawater rolled back, clouds dispersed, and even space was twisted and deformed under high-frequency vibration.
Gern and Roger had long since become bloodthirsty, their figures intertwined in the shattered battlefield, blade light and shockwaves tearing everything into pieces.
"Using Fruit Awakening to close the gap in strength?" Roger laughed wildly as he descended from the sky.
Ace's long blade was wrapped in boiling dark red Haki, and before the blade even arrived, the violent wind had stirred up monstrous waves, as if the entire sea was surrendering to this one strike!
"I have no choice! My opponent is the strongest in the world!!!" Gern grinned, black blade eight desolations blocking in front of him, the moment the blades collided.
"Clang!" A deafening clang of metal exploded, and shockwaves burst open in a ring, the crystallized ground beneath their feet cracked inch by inch, and shattered crystals splattered like a rainstorm.
Gern's arm muscles bulged, and pale white vibrating energy spread wildly along the blade, attempting to shatter Roger's Haki defense.
However, the dark red Haki on Ace's long blade erupted like a volcano, forcibly resisting the erosion of the shockwaves!
Between sea and sky, pale and dark red flames intertwined, tearing the entire firmament into fragments!
The two separated with a touch, Roger's boot soles scraping dazzling sparks on the crystallized ground.
And Gern retreated with the force, slowly spreading his arms, palms up, fingertips trembling slightly.
"Buzz!!!"
The air twisted, and the first tremor ring silently spread!
"Heaven Quake: Ring: Tremor God Dance!"
Within ten meters, rocks, seawater, dust, all matter silently disintegrated in the pale shockwaves, turning into crystalline particles suspended in the air.
Like a pouring galaxy, breathtakingly beautiful, yet terrifying to the extreme!
"This is terrifying! Heaven Quake!" Roger's pupils constricted, but the smile on his lips became even more unrestrained.
He stomped his boot on the ground, the crystallized surface exploded, and his figure shot up like a cannonball, Ace's long blade wrapped in boiling Haki, slashing towards the core of the tremor ring with one strike!
"God Avoidance: Break!"
The moment the blade and the shockwave collided, dark red Haki and pale tremor light intensely clashed, sparks bursting out like a rainstorm!
Ace's blade vibrated violently, the metal decorations on the hilt cracked inch by inch, turning into fine golden dust that scattered.
But Roger also spat out blood, only it was vibrated into a blood mist by the high-frequency vibration before it could even drip!
After all, it was impossible for Roger to be unaffected in Gern's Heaven Quake domain.
Even though Roger had always relied on his powerful Haki to nullify the effects of the Fruit on himself (powerful Haki can grant immunity to Fruit effects).
Allowing Gern to awaken and unleash his Heaven Quake domain but still unable to restrict Roger, but as time passed.
Roger would definitely reach a point where he couldn't maintain it due to his terminal illness!
"Whether it's despicable or insidious… I cannot fail in this battle!"
Gern's black hair floated against gravity, and pale white cracks appeared on his arm muscles, as if enduring a power beyond limits.
"Because… I need this victory!!!"
The second tremor ring suddenly expanded!
Within a hundred meters, the ground collapsed like fragile glass, and the fragments turned into dust before they could even fall!
Immediately after, the third tremor ring swept out!
Within a thousand meters, the waves solidified, the earth crystallized, sunlight refracted into colorful auroras, and the entire battlefield turned into a giant mirror spanning heaven and earth!
Roger's pupils suddenly constricted, but a wild smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
He suddenly drew his sword, his figure like lightning, leaving a dark red afterimage on the crystallized ground, dodging frantically.
Because with a move of this range, he wouldn't be foolish enough to take it head-on!
"Choosing to dodge? Then…" Gern released Eight Desolations, letting it float beside him.
Then he made a grasping motion with his right hand, and high-frequency particles gathered madly in his palm, pale light twisting and condensing, actually forming a ferocious longbow nearly two meters long!
The bowstring was made of pure vibrating energy, and every tremor tore out fine cracks in the void.
"Then experience the Tremor Annihilation Arrow that pierces all things!"
"Tremor Firmament Bow…" Gern's left hand made a pulling motion on the bowstring, and the vibrating particles in space automatically collapsed and compressed, condensing into a spiral arrow at his fingertips.
The arrow body was composed of countless layers of superimposed pale tremor rings, and the tip constantly burst out dazzling purple-black electric light, its mere existence causing the surrounding light to twist and collapse.
The bow body was wrapped in spiral energy patterns, and the moment the string was pulled, space rippled.
"Starfall!" The moment the bowstring vibrated, the arrow left the string, trailing a spiral pale tail flame, turning into a pale meteor that pierced through the battlefield!
Wherever it passed, the atmosphere was torn into a vacuum channel, and space shattered section by section like glass.
Facing this attack, Roger suddenly stopped, holding his sword with both hands, ready to cut it in half with one strike, but…
"Starfall: Thousand Ring Tremor!" The arrow suddenly split, and thousands of tremor rings erupted in front of Roger!
"Not good!" Roger's pupils constricted, and wherever the tremor rings entered, his muscles, bones, and blood vessels began to vibrate at high frequency from within!
His skin instantly cracked, and blood was vibrated into a mist before it could even seep out.
Even more terrifying was that these tremor rings were still spreading throughout his body along his meridians!
Gern slowly lowered his longbow, Roger's gradually disintegrating figure reflected in his pale pupils: "Shattering everything from a fundamental level… this is the true meaning of 'Starfall'."
"Ahhhhhh!!!" Dark red Haki and pale tremor light intensely clashed within Roger's body, and spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the surface of his skin.
"Cough!" He grunted, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth, but he laughed wildly as he slammed Ace into the ground.
"Soul Suppress!" Dark red Haki poured into the crystallized ground from the blade tip, and the entire battlefield exploded with a roar!
The shockwave rushed upwards, forcibly shaking off the rampant tremor rings in his body, and the crystallized ground splattered like a broken mirror, reflecting thousands of dazzling lights.
